Re: Laptop / wifi issues

[Edward Morbius <dredmorbius@gmail.com>]

Well, it seems that a few long-standing issues have resolved for me
since upgrading to testing/unstable:

- Wireless, as noted.
- Video wouldn't update following hibernate restore, or exiting an X11
session without killing/restarting X server.
- Video would lock hard displaying movies (variously flash / xine /
mplayer, reduced size or full-screen).

Very nice.

KDE seems to have jumped the shark again, either following GNOME's
lead or drawing it after, but that I really don't care about nearly so
much.

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Edward Morbius <dredmorbius@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lenovo Thinkpad T520i.
>
> Wireless controller: 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation
> Centrino Wireless-N 1000
>
> I can see and get a wireless connection (usually via wicd-cli), but
> dhclient fails to get an IP address:
>
> # iwconfig  wlan0
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"RIGHTSCALE"
>          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:0E:83:67:74:B0
>          Bit Rate=48 Mb/s   Tx-Power=14 dBm
>          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>          Encryption key:off
>          Power Management:off
>          Link Quality=51/70  Signal level=-59 dBm
>          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>          Tx excessive retries:2  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
>
>
> OK, I lied.  Just now trying to prove this wouldn't work:
>
>
> # dhclient -v wlan0
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1.1-P1
> Copyright 2004-2010 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
>
> Listening on LPF/wlan0/8c:a9:82:7a:92:2a
> Sending on   LPF/wlan0/8c:a9:82:7a:92:2a
> Sending on   Socket/fallback
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> DHCPOFFER from 10.36.0.1
> DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPACK from 10.36.0.1
> bound to 10.36.7.178 -- renewal in 4135 seconds.
>
>
> However ... wicd-cli failed to get a DHCP lease earlier.
>
> I'll investigate further and follow up.
>
> --
> Dr. Ed Morbius
> Chief Scientist / Philologist / Robot Wrangler / Powerplant Operator
> Krell Power Systems Unlimited
>



-- 
Dr. Ed Morbius
Chief Scientist / Philologist / Robot Wrangler / Powerplant Operator
Krell Power Systems Unlimited